Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...married to an Englishwoman, to Finance Minister Salih Kubba, who attended the University of California and has an international reputation as an economist. Seven of the new Cabinet ministers were in Kassem's concentration camp at Rashid military base until the rebels broke down the gates during the coup...
Normal Torpor. By week's end Iraq seemed settling down into the normal torpor of an Arab state after a coup d'état. Oil flowed uninterruptedly through the pipelines to the Mediterranean. Shops, schools, and government offices reopened. The curfew was gradually extended from 3 in the afternoon until 11 at night, and in the coffeehouses men were gossiping and playing backgammon...
...daring coup on the high seas. FALN agents had just hijacked the 3,127-ton government-owned freighter Anzoátegui only a few hours after it left the port of La Guaira bound for Houston and New Orleans. Betancourt might have expected something of the sort. Though the pro-Castro group is not powerful enough to overthrow Venezuela's President, it does its best to embarrass him-particularly since he is scheduled to make a state visit to the U.S. this week. In the campaign, FALN terrorists have been shooting up police cars, setting fire to U.S. businesses...
Four years after the 1958 coup that ended royal rule in oil-rich Iraq, a pretty blonde girl, Genevieve Arnault, 23, told a strange story to a Manhattan court. She was, she said, the widow of assassinated King Feisal II, 23 at the time of his death. They had fallen in love at a garden party in Greenwich, Conn, given by her mother, a lady engineer and construction company executive. In 1957 Genevieve went to Baghdad, where she and Feisal were secretly married. Who believed it? A Manhattan surrogate court judge, that's who. The judge ruled that...
Died. Colonel Ketsana Vongsouvanh, 35, second-in-command to Neutralist Laotian Army General Kong Le, one of the original 17 officers who helped Kong Le carry out his 1960 coup d'état, a man considered violently anti-American until last year when he reportedly began reversing his ideas; by assassination (he was shot in the back while relieving himself behind his home); in Phongsavan at Plaine des Jarres. The murder, widely believed to be the work of the pro-Communist Pathet Lao, happened only 36 hours after Neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma left on a world tour...